Earlier today I tried this at my friends house and got the dlc for free. It's been over 12 hours and its 4:22 am in California and I tried it again and it worked. Here's how you do it. You turn on your halo 4 and go to War Games. Click on it to search and it tell you that you need to download it. Click on yes take me to xbox live marketplace and right there it should say 0 ms points download. Click confirm purchase and there you go. See ya'll on Halo! Find me at SS LaZy.

Yea, it's on the u.s. store. @ madmen I believe ou have to have the "free gift" that ms emailed out installed for it to work. When I booted up halo 4 there was a message saying the map pack is available, then it took me to a download screen showing that it's available for 0 points. You have to access it from the game, not the marketplace, or else it won't work.

HmmI just popped in halo 4 to see how much the new map pack was. It said 0ms points for the purchase so I downloaded it. I couldn't believe it was free. I got on n4g saw this article and went to MS market place from the dash board and it says download it for 800ms points. WTF is going on? Has 343 said anything yet? I would hate to pay $60 for a game then them try to ban me because I downloaded their free content, when some one goes oh yeah we wanted you to pay for it.

Got it yesterday for Free... thought it was a thank you gift for buying the game within the first two weeks. Wasnt there something about that? Cause MS also emailed me a code which entitled me to something, dont even know what if i'm being honest. lol

You may want to check your e-mail. Word is that the specialization access code they sent out a few weeks back may allow players to access this glitch...I literally downloaded it about 15 minutes ago so I doubt they shut the door on this free download if it has been up for as long as it has already. Keep trying I'd say.

Or just be sure that you went into Halo 4's War Games menu and downloaded it from in-game instead of from Xbox Marketplace on the Dashboard.

Glad it worked for ya. The maps aren't as mind-blowing as some other maps in the series, but it's refreshing to have more maps now, and especially for free. I was going to get them regardless today anyhow.

As far as repercussions...this is a mistake on their part, not an offense they can ban you for since it was an authorized transaction regardless. Worst case scenario they attempt to remove the files from your HD which seems like a lot of excess work on their part. Needless to say...Thanks for the free DLC MS!

ye i dl it and was able to play the first night it launched but dl a patch and it wasnt available to play anymore, i literally have an achievement for killing someone while grounded from a man cannon and its like a ghost achievement, i earned it and got points but didnt really earn it